Blaine Martin (he/they)

Get a frog named after you today!

Me and @lincodega.com are a stretch goal for this. hope it hits. It’s my folk horror tom bombadil incursion.

Ruin: An Anthology of One Shot Incursions for Trophy A collection of 14 new incursions for Trophy Gold and Trophy Dark.

There are so many amazing writers contributing to this project. We are so close to unlocking all of the stretch goals on the first day and it is rad as hell that so many people trust us to give them some awesome new Trophy content. Join the fun if you can!

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Ruin: An Anthology of One Shot Incursions for Trophy A collection of 14 new incursions for Trophy Gold and Trophy Dark.

The KS is live! Enter the Forest in varied desperate or doomed ways, depending on the flavor, Gold or Dark. My incursion sends your hunters on a mission to find and safely escort a noble, with considerable reward practically guaranteed…

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Ruin: An Anthology of One Shot Incursions for Trophy A collection of 14 new incursions for Trophy Gold and Trophy Dark.

I just backed Ruin: An Anthology of One Shot Incursions for Trophy on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/fir...

Ruin: An Anthology of One Shot Incursions for Trophy A collection of 14 new incursions for Trophy Gold and Trophy Dark.

My favorite part of writing for this was saying to my playtesters, "You've faced the bees. Now it's time to meet the birds."

Somehow we're already on the path to unlock the "Jason Cordova monster mouth sounds" stretch goal.

Fans of Jason's Actual Play performances, you know what to do! Fans of monster mouth noises who are unfamiliar with Jason's work in this realm are also more than welcome.

You know what they say: "if you gaze long into a stew, the stew also gazes into you."

"Stew horror" is an underutilized subgenre of horror and I'm excited to see it expanded.

Ruin: An Anthology of One Shot Incursions for Trophy A collection of 14 new incursions for Trophy Gold and Trophy Dark.

If you're a fan of the material I've written for Trophy, then you're in luck: more of it is available as part of this collection of incursions.

I contributed a 3-set Trophy Gold scenario set in a fallen hot springs that has both a cult AND frog problem.

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For the lore freaks: It also expands the world around Kalduhr. Treasure hunters will head to cities, towns, and wildernesses that have been referenced but not yet explored in the Trophy games.

We're live! Get my "stew horror" incursion plus 13 other Trophy adventures from some amazing writers!

Not saying that if I work on your game it'll be featured on Quinns Quest, but it's weird that it happened twice

If you’re under 40 and wonder why the rest of us are like this, Public Access is a fine bit of disaster tourism …

Blaine Martin (he/they) — 2/20/24, 8:41 AM GM: Okay, yet another NPC comes up to Ben and says "I can answer all the questions you have about your father and your strange powers." Player: I punch them, then run away and stare broodingly at a corn field, wishing I knew who my father was and what my strange powers did.

Almost two years ago, @notalonehorror.bsky.social and I were talking about the TV show Carnivàle as if it were an RPG and he nailed the dynamic of Ben Watkins, a series protagonist stubbornly uninterested in being the main character or revealing his story.

If you want schlock Re-Animator will give you all you want and more. There’s as much bad to say as good, but I still love every second. This is the 40th anniversary and if you're into physical media you can get this amazing anniversary edition. I hope you enjoy and we’ll see you next year! (9/9)

Most of the acting in Re-Animator ranges from bad to forgettable. David Gale as Dr. Carl Hill, West’s foil, is the only other stand out. As bad as the rest of the cast is, the scenes between Herbert West and Dr. Hill are tense, creepy, and superb. It almost feels like two different movies. (8/9)

The practical effects in Re-Animator manage to be both terrible and horrifying. The cat sequence is the perfect example of this. At no point during the entire struggle with West’s first failed resurrection does the cat look even remotely real, but it still manages to creep you the fuck out. (7/9)

Despite the humorous failures, Jeffrey Combs instills Herbert West with such an arrogance that the movie still nails the commentary on science. Combs is one of the best things to come from Gordon's Lovecraft era. Bonus rec: watch Combs play Lovecraft in the 1993 anthology film Necronomicon. (6/9)

“Herbert West–Reanimator” is set in Arkham, but it isn’t a mythos story. It is really just Lovecraft retelling Frankenstein. Lovecraft's horrifying monster gods out in space are swapped out for petty humans with no regard for others trying to play god. (5/9)

After Herbert rents a room in fellow student Dan Cain’s house, we find out he’s created a strange serum that can bring the dead back to life. It works terribly on animals, so why wouldn’t they see if it works on humans? From there chaos, horror, and hilarity ensues. (4/9)

So, Re-Animator is a big ol’ pile of schlock and I love it. Herbert West is a med student home from studying with the famous Dr. Gruber. From the jump we know he's got controversial thoughts on how long the brain lives after death and he’s gonna be a problem for the faculty at Miskatonic. (3/9)

We can’t really start until we get something out of the way: Lovecraft is awful. He was a terrible person and a mediocre writer, but the Mythos set a million minds to thinking about what terrifies them in their deep heart’s core. Those new voices are what I think is really beautiful. (2/9)

Wow, here we are in the last days of this year's #Hauntalong. Time sure flies when you’re being spooky! Thanks all for reading along. I hope you found some groovy horror films to make your Spooky Season better! I’m closing up my contribution with Stuart Gordon’s 1985 classic Re-Animator! (1/9)

Attention boils and ghouls (is there a gender-neutral play on words?), it's my last #hauntalong entry this year and I'm capping it off with one of my favorite Halloweentime movies...

The #hauntalong continues! Tonight I'm talking about love, patriarchy, and family annihilation in...

The Vourdalak (2023)

You can tell the script is by Tarantino, full of profanity, obscenity, and quick dialog. If Tarantino isn't your flavor it probably won't be even with vampires. But if Rodriguez, Tarantino, and Kurtzman teaming up to make a trashy Vampire western sounds fun then From Dusk till Dawn delivers. (10/10)

While not on the effects team, make-up legend Tom Savini shows up as Sex Machine, the crotch-gun toting biker. This is a good time to mention the 2014 TV series where Sex Machine is played by Jake Busey. The first season expands the movie out to 10 episodes and a lot better than I expected. (9/10)

Also of note is the set design. Really, the one set but it is a doozie. The Titty Twister is half Aztec ruin half strip club and it is gorgeous. As we get introduced to the cast of characters take a few moments to pause the movie and just take in the incredible work that went into this set. (8/10)

The story was written by FX legend Robert Kurtzman who paid Tarantino to finish the script so he could take over as makeup effects supervisor. The make-up and gore are what you’d expect from an expert hand. A personal favorite is the band’s switch to playing body parts for the vampire fight. (7/10)